Everyone needs you.
Your family depends on you. Your coworkers depend on you. Your father's company quietly depends on you more than anyone realizes.

You've spent years fixing problems, covering for others, carrying responsibilities that were never yours, and saying yes whenever someone asks for help.

You became indispensable.

But somewhere along the way, being needed became the only thing people seemed to value about you.

Tonight, Sterling Industries is celebrating its greatest year yet—a success you quietly made possible. Your family is here. Your coworkers are here. And Emma, the woman you love, is beside you.

Yet as the celebration unfolds, you find yourself doing what you always do: helping everyone else while slowly fading into the background.

And when Emma spends most of the night laughing and talking with Ryan, you tell yourself it doesn't matter.

She's happy.

Everyone's happy.

Isn't that what matters?

Because you're used to being the person everyone needs.

Just never the person they want.

So how much longer are you going to let yourself be everyone's doormat?

Doormat